Jita Park Speakers Corner

My communication record speaks for itself. I have openly committed to seeing the communication between the CSM and the players improved, but my conception of that is improving the frequency and quality of that communication rather than to any specific media. This isn't an issue I'm prepared to change my mind on.

To my way of thinking, requiring players to subscribe to Malcanis' Twitter or Malcanis' blog or whatever, is to make myself more important than the message being communicated. I prefer to make the communication as one of the demos, in the relevant discussion about the issue.

I'll say this: if there was a more effective way to get the work done I hope to do on the CSM, then I wouldn't be running. I'm not interested in publicity or e-fame or popularity. I'm interested in seeing EVE improved to make it a better and more entertaining game for me to play, not in self-popularisation.

I honestly cannot figure out whether you are trolling or not.

I don't tell a candidate whether or not they have my vote.

What I will say is that I think this post and all the linked posts are extremely well thought out. You have a very clear view of the EVE economy as a whole and are more than capable of seeing the real problems as well as what things EVE really needs. I think you would make an excellent CSM member and I hope you win a seat.

P.S. I don't understand Twitter and I don't need it, therefore I don't use it. People who can't live without it usually don't have much to say to me anyway.

First I would have to experience those urges.

Chiming in to support the idea that the EVE forums are more than adequate as a communication platform. I'd rather not have to go looking all over the internet for CSM information when there are two perfectly good forums right here, clearly labeled "Council of Stellar Management."

So Malcanis, you might be one of my transferable votes in the new STV system...

What do you think of James?

Hello there!

I would like to name several situations that I feel are detrimental to the game. Give a solution and ask you for your stance on both. I do need answers to all the situations for my vote(s)

POS those three letters bring nightmares to just about anyone having the misfortune of having to operate one. The solution in the long term is obviously modular POS. Yet CCP seems to be backpedaling on implementing this despite the MANY benefits. What is your stance on the possibility of a near term bandage of a form of player POS that is only designed to be the equilivant of a Secure Container for ships until modular POS is ready?

Overpowered passive cloaking. It is now to the point where people are now beyond AFK cloaking but running Twitch.tv streams of enemy stations and systems! Would you support balancing cloaking to punish those who go AFK (Eventually able to be scanned down for decloak) while maintaining the benefits to people actively cloaking (Remaining at their keyboard)

Lack of Ring Mining. Again with the CCP backpedaling despite the many benefits for nullsec and other areas for the game. What is your stand on the crap that is moon mining?

The silly push by some in the community to end or delay "Local" or any effective means for those in a nullsec system to determine if a hostile or unknown is in system in them. This obviously needs no solution but I want your thoughts.

The horrible state of missions in hisec. The solution in my opinion is a complete rewrite to allow for a more incursion like approach that rewards those who want to train up logistic frigs and cruisers or be a specific role in a fleet. Also providing a way for newer players to experience group play in EVE.

Incursion suckage. With the nerfs to Incursions fleets have slowed to a trickle and it was sad to see CCP willing to spend more development time nerfing entire expansions instead of doing what was right being making other aspects of EVE better. Modular POS and Ring mining need dev time sooner so I will admit this ought to be looked at later however I wanted to get your views on them and have this to be some context to the next aspect of Logi.

Logi suckage. Logis do not have the tools to do their job. They need to be able to tell who is locked and taking damage and in large fleets the watchlist can't handle that leading to dependence on broadcasts that most of EVE seems to not know or refuse to use right. Look at any average HQ incursion fleet where people don't broadcast right stressing out logi or in fleet fights where following FCs orders makes it harder to broadcast properly. A solution is a logi only screen that is completely configurable to show who is taking the most DPS and who has the most locks in fleet.

Logi Suckage #2 Reps don't get you on mails? Wut? Solution obviously is to have repping those in fleet land you on killmails generated from fleet.

I value this endorsement. Thank you for supporting my campaign so unequivocally.

As a very basic starting point, personal ship and item hangar divisions in the ship & item arrays would be great (and make the arrays capable of storing more stuff). Even with people you're able to trust, having to lump everything in together in common arrays is just horrible and time-consuming. The amount of bad feeling and disenchantment caused is unbelievable.

Long term, I'd like to see "POS" be modular and expandable to the point where an "outpost" is just a fully expanded POS.

I haven't seen anything from CCP about what Ring Mining is supposed to be exactly, other than the name of it. I guess it sounds cool, but I'm not clear on what the benefits are supposed to be.

Moon mining is discussed in this thread starting around page 2. The tl;dr is "Alchemy band-aided it a bit but the situation is still Dumb™"



This is a more complex issue than you make it "obviously" sound. Obviously, just making K-space 0.0 local delayed mode, and not changing anything else is a terrible idea. It's appropriate for W-space, but not for 0.0, because K-space and W-space are very different environments in other ways also.

However, I don't like local as an intel tool. It shows the wrong kind of intel (it shows who is in system but not what is in system), it shows it in a bad interface, it doesn't promote good gameplay or skill, it's not interactive, it makes EVE seem much smaller than it is.

If I could persuade CCP to devote the resources to it, I'd love to see the Directional Scanner hugely improved, realtime (automatically updated once per second, as local is now - DEATH TO CLICKING), configurable (eg: you can reduce the field of scan in order to increase the range and strength of the scan), allow modules to improve range and strength of scan, and the output should something that requires some attention and skill to get the best out of. Basically, the "free intel" should show you what is around you but not who is around you.

But the chances of that are not great, and until we can replace it with something better, local will have to stay as it is.